How to kill the unkillable
(This review contains
spoilers!)
Last week Re:Creators proved that it still had enough juice in it to create
what was looking to be a grand finale. This week they proved something else,
but it turned out to be the complete opposite of last week. This episode feels
like the complete culmination of everything that went wrong with this anime
after the second half began. The writers basically admitted they’d written
themselves into a corner and there was only one way to defeat Altair: a
complete deus-ex machina.
It’s disappointing too, because
halfway through the episode I thought they made it clear this was what they
were trying to avoid. They summon an out-of-nowhere brand new creation with the
same powers as Altair to try and combine the two together…and that’ll destroy
her I guess? I dunno, this episode was awfully written when it came to that
sort of thing.
But surprise! Even after it looks like
the plan was a success, Altair comes back again
and it seems like all hope is lost. Seriously, even if you found her a
little too overpowered before, it’s just plain comical at this point. She’s not
an interesting or compelling villain whatsoever. She just exists to be an
unstoppable force our heroes throw themselves at while she spouts philosophy at
them. There’s no depth to the battle because you know the creations can’t win
since the writers made her way too broken. It’s just a chore to watch while you
wait for the plot to inch forward a little bit.
So how do we win? Sota seems to have
the answer, as he instructs Meteora to add his contribution to the story into
the arena. At first it looks like it’s not going to work, but then Magane
randomly says her magic words at an airport somewhere and it all turns out
okay. Sure, whatever.
The episode ends with everyone, Altair
included, are teleported to the train station where Altair’s creator killed
herself, and she appears on the stairs behind them. Hooray, a character we had
no idea would be involved with the finale is going to save the day! Aren’t you
glad you stuck with this show?
Maybe I’m wrong and they’ll go a
completely different route with it, but if so this episode was an incredibly
shoddy way to set things up. Altair feels like a parody of overpowered anime
villains instead of an actual menacing character at this point, the random
Altair-killer character that has literally no personality (they even bring it
up in-universe) had no purpose and only existed so they could fill the
22-minute runtime, and the fact that the writers are implying the only way they
can defeat the main villain is through a random character coming out of nowhere
with no build-up to their return whatsoever is goddamn insulting.
I sat through every episode of this
show, both the good and the bad. I sure hope the actual ending is better than
this awful episode lets on.
FINAL
SCORE
1/10
Garbage
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